street melancholy

This series blends humans and cities, where scaffolds, graffiti, streets, and buildings emerge with a melancholy aura. These images reflect memory, transition, and the fleeting, shifting nature of urban life and how it shapes identity and experience.

While most of my work is grounded in humans, my photographs of architecture and cities occupy a distinct place in my practice. Both emerge in my images with a melancholic aura, cities serve as a backdrop for silent memories and spaces of transition, especially in structures and urban spaces. City culture is of extreme relevance to my art, and this focus allows me to reflect on how environments shape identity and community. By combining the human figure with cityscapes, these images walk hand in hand within my body of work, where scaffolds, graffiti, streets, and buildings become metaphors for action, transition, and the layers of lived experience: they embody movement, ascension and descent, the tension between what is left behind and what awaits ahead. All that is seen around cities are ephemeral, just like we are, what we do and feel. Sometimes things fleet and change, no matter how much we want them to stay the same. The basis of my series is the graffiti that says “Home Sick”, because having lived as an immigrant, having laws and administrations keeping us from going home, wherever that might be, is very sensitive and painful.